In situ non-invasive multianalytical methodology to characterize mosaic tesserae from the House of Gilded Cupids, Pompeii
dc.contributor.author | Marcaida Ormazabal, Iker ![]() | |
dc.contributor.author | Maguregui Hernando, Maite | |
dc.contributor.author | Morillas Loroño, Héctor | |
dc.contributor.author | Prieto Taboada, Nagore | |
dc.contributor.author | Veneranda, Marco | |
dc.contributor.author | Fernández Ortiz de Vallejuelo, Silvia | |
dc.contributor.author | Martellone, Alberta | |
dc.contributor.author | De Nigris, Bruno | |
dc.contributor.author | Osanna, Massimo | |
dc.contributor.author | Madariaga Mota, Juan Manuel ![]() | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-04T17:44:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-04T17:44:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Heritage Science 7(1) : (2019) // Article ID 3 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2050-7445 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/32329 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mosaics, one of the most important decorative artworks in the Roman culture, were usually elaborated with a set of tesserae joined with lime or others binders to form geometric or figurative decorations. The identification of both substrate and colored compounds of the tesserae is a challenge for chemists and archaeologists. In this work, two mosaics present in the House of Gilded Cupids from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii were analyzed in situ by non destructive techniques. Raman and Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform (DRIFT) spectroscopies were used for the molecular and mineralogical characterization, and hand-held energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (HH-EDXRF) spectrometry and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for the elemental analysis. LIBS in-depth analysis was performed to obtain insights about the thickness of the pictorial layer determining that the thickness of red and orange pictorial layers was higher than 140 μm. The results showed that white tesserae were mainly composed by calcite, while local black colored volcanic rocks were used to manufacture black tesserae. Red and orange tesserae were composed by a calcite-based matrix with a hematite pictorial layer applied over it. Orange color was obtained by diluting hematite in the calcite matrix. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the XRF data was performed to observe differences and/or similarities between the analyzed mosaics; the samples projection of the PCA showed clear groupings. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Iker Marcaida is grateful to the Basque Government who funded his predoctoral fellowship. This work has been supported by the project MADyLIN (BIA2017‑87063‑P) funded by the Spanish Agency for Research AEI (MINEICO‑FEDER/ UE). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Springer | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/BIA2017-87063-P | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy | es_ES |
dc.subject | LIBS | es_ES |
dc.subject | local black colored volcanic rock | es_ES |
dc.subject | Pompeian mosaics | es_ES |
dc.subject | Raman spectroscopy | es_ES |
dc.subject | x-ray fluorescence spectrometry | es_ES |
dc.title | In situ non-invasive multianalytical methodology to characterize mosaic tesserae from the House of Gilded Cupids, Pompeii | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | Atribución 3.0 España | * |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0246-1 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s40494-019-0246-1 | |
dc.departamentoes | Química analítica | es_ES |
dc.departamentoeu | Kimika analitikoa | es_ES |
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